Nicholas Soames

Nicholas Soames (12 February 1948-) was the Conservative Party MP for Crawley from 9 June 1983 to 1 May 1997 (succeeding Peter Hordern and preceding Laura Moffatt) and MP for Mid Sussex from 1 May 1997 (succeeding Tim Renton).

Biography
Nicholas Soames was born in Croydon, England in 1948, the grandson of Winston Churchill and the great-nephew of Robert Baden-Powell. He served in the British Army from 1967 to 1975 before working as an equerry to Charles, Prince of Wales and then as a stockbroker. In 1983, he was elected to Parliament as the Conservative Party MP for Crawley, and his constituency switched to Mid Sussex in 1997. In 2011, he was sworn into the Privy Cabinet, and he supported David Cameron's premiership. He was a member of his party's soft left, opposed Brexit, and opposed Donald Trump's recognition of Israeli ownership of the occupied Golan Heights. On 3 September 2019, he and 21 other Conservative MPs were ejected from the party for opposing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's "no-deal Brexit" plan.